Meet Ryan Lindsay
Ryan Lindsay is a freelance writer, preacher & Emmy-award winning journalist from Washington D.C.
In Mine The Unseen, through a series of poems, prose & journal entries, Ryan Lindsay explores the reality of choosing to have an abortion as a Black & Christian woman in America. Guilt, shame & other stigmas surrounding abortion silence women for generations, including in her own family. For Lindsay, grief & forgiveness become gateways for exploring who she was, who she is & who she's becoming.
A Word from Ryan Lindsay
I began writing through my grief during the fall of 2016. On August 31, 2016, I made the decision to abort my twins, Joi & Merci. The unseen is a nod to the pain, emotional fragility & literal inability to physically identify a woman or person who’s had an abortion. These throes are frequently unnoticed &, perhaps because of this particular lack of visibility, both stifle & augment grief.
The following October, at TEDxMidAtlantic, I shared part of my story to an audience of about 700 strangers. Afterwards, women of all ages and ethnicities approached me to share words of thanks & affirmation for opening up about my experience. They too had experienced abortions—five years ago, ten years ago—but many had never spoken about it. It became incredibly clear that there is a need to write on this topic, this process, this undertaking that is healing through an abortion.